I just tried to start a Windows XP kvm under fedora 18 and have no mouse. I could swear I saw something about spice and mouse problems recently, but I can't find it. This VM works fine under fedora 17. I have it configured to use spice. Do I need newer drivers inside the VM or something? I just copied the xml file and pointed to the same image that f17 is running. Here's the log, don't know what all the internal buf is not available messages are about, I don't have anything like that in the log on fedora 17. 2013-01-18 23:05:56.662+0000: starting up LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=spice /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -name hog1 -S -M pc-0.14 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 72c25613-ec08-08a4-de48-a4432404fd91 -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/hog1.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime -no-shutdown -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x8 -drive file=/zooty/images/hog1.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2,cache=writeback -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 -drive file=/zooty/images/swap-hog1.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk1,format=raw,cache=writeback -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7,drive=drive-virtio-disk1,id=virtio-disk1 -drive if=none,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device id e-cd,bus =ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -netdev tap,fd=22,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=23 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=54:52:00:66:58:ed,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -chardev spicevmc,id=charchannel0,name=vdagent -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0 -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -spice port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=67108864 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 char device redirected to /dev/pts/1 main_channel_link: add main channel client main_channel_handle_parsed: net test: latency 0.346000 ms, bitrate 21113402061 bps (20135.309278 Mbps) red_dispatcher_set_cursor_peer: inputs_connect: inputs channel client create main_channel_handle_parsed: agent start __spice_char_device_write_buffer_get: internal buf is not available __spice_char_device_write_buffer_get: internal buf is not available __spice_char_device_write_buffer_get: internal buf is not available __spice_char_device_write_buffer_get: internal buf is not available __spice_char_device_write_buffer_get: internal buf is not available __spice_char_device_write_buffer_get: internal buf is not available __spice_char_device_write_buffer_get: internal buf is not available __spice_char_device_write_buffer_get: internal buf is not available __spice_char_device_write_buffer_get: internal buf is not available __spice_char_device_write_buffer_get: internal buf is not available qemu: terminating on signal 15 from pid 5012 2013-01-18 23:09:21.508+0000: shutting down